Apprenticeships

Lord Adonis: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total number of staff employed within the Arts and Humanities Research Council on 1 May 2013; and how many of them were (1) under the age of 21, (2) apprentices under the age of 21, and (3) apprentices over the age of 21.

Viscount Younger of Leckie: The number of employees employed by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) on 1 May 2013 was 75 headcount or 70.22 Full Time Equivalent (FTE). The AHRC has no employees under the age of 21 and no apprentices.

Apprenticeships

Lord Adonis: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total number of staff employed within Capital for Enterprise Ltd on 1 May 2013; and how many of them were (1) under the age of 21, (2) apprentices under the age of 21, and (3) apprentices over the age of 21.

Viscount Younger of Leckie: The total number of staff employed within Capital for Enterprise Ltd on 1 May 2013 was 32. None were under the age of 21. There were no apprentices under or over the age of 21.

Apprenticeships

Lord Adonis: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total number of staff employed within the Construction Industry Training Board on 1 May 2013; and how many of them were (1) under the age of 21, (2) apprentices under the age of 21, and (3) apprentices over the age of 21.

Viscount Younger of Leckie: I am informed by the Construction Industry Training Board that they employed 1,423 staff on 1 May 2013. Of these 15 were under the age of 21, 9 were apprentices under the age of 21, and 1 was an apprentice over the age of 21.

Apprenticeships

Lord Adonis: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total number of staff employed within Consumer Focus on 1 May 2013; and how many of them were (1) under the age of 21, (2) apprentices under the age of 21, and (3) apprentices over the age of 21.

Viscount Younger of Leckie: Consumer Focus (now Consumer Futures) had 102 employees on 1 May 2013. None of these employees were under the age of 21 and the organisation had no apprentices.

Apprenticeships

Lord Adonis: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total number of staff employed within the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council on 1 May 2013; and how many of them were (1) under the age of 21, (2) apprentices under the age of 21, and (3) apprentices over the age of 21.

Viscount Younger of Leckie: The total number of staff (headcount) employed within the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) on 1 May 2013 was 220, of which full time equivalent (FTE) is 207.76.
	EPSRC has no employees under the age of 21 and no apprentices.

Apprenticeships

Lord Adonis: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total number of staff employed within the Higher Education Funding Council for England on 1 May 2013; and how many of them were (1) under the age of 21, (2) apprentices under the age of 21, and (3) apprentices over the age of 21.

Viscount Younger of Leckie: The numbers of staff employed in the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) at 1 May 2013 are as follows: There were 240 HEFCE staff under the age of 21, there were no Apprentices under, or over the age of 21, the total number of HEFCE staff was 270*.
	*
	These figures include staff on secondment/maternity leave/unpaid leave.
	**
	HEFCE does not have offer any apprenticeships - although they do offer (and have done for many years) 4-5 sandwich year placements in the Analytical Services Team.

Apprenticeships

Lord Adonis: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total number of staff employed within the Medical Research Council on 1 May 2013; and how many of them were (1) under the age of 21, (2) apprentices under the age of 21, and (3) apprentices over the age of 21.

Viscount Younger of Leckie: The Medical Research Council (MRC) is one of the main agencies through which the Government support medical and clinical research. The MRC provides funding for research across the entire spectrum of medical sciences in universities, hospitals and research organisations across the UK and through its own units, centres and institutes. The total number of staff employed at 1 May 2013 was 3,035, 29 of whom were under 21. The age profile reflects the requirement for the majority of MRC recruitment to be at the graduate and post-graduate level in science.
	At 1 May 2013 the MRC employed seven apprentices, six of whom were under 21 and one over 21. These apprentices are employed in engineering and estates, histology, human resources and IT.
	The MRC is about to launch the first ever UK apprenticeship scheme for animal technicians. The 15-month training scheme is designed to answer an expected need for the increased number of animal technicians which are estimated to be required by the public sector, industry and charities by 2020.

Apprenticeships

Lord Adonis: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total number of staff employed within the Student Loans Company on 1 May 2013; and how many of them were (1) under the age of 21, (2) apprentices under the age of 21, and (3) apprentices over the age of 21.

Baroness Garden of Frognal: On 1 May 2013, Student Loans Company employed 2,402staff;Of this number 36wereunder the age of 21; 9 were apprentices under the age of 21; 6 were apprentices over the age of 21.

Bank of England

Lord Barnett: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what powers the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank of England have to change the membership of sub-committees of the Court of the Bank of England; and what assessment they have made of the suitability of those powers.

Lord Deighton: There are two sub-committees of Court which are established by legislation. These are the Oversight Committee and the Financial Policy Committee, whose membership are set out in the Bank of England Act 1998.
	The terms of reference and membership of other Court sub-committees are a matter for the Bank's Court, all of whose members—including the Governor of the Bank of England—are appointed by Her Majesty the Queen, on recommendation of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
	The Government assesses these arrangements to be suitable.

Caribbean

Baroness Benjamin: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much progress has been made towards their goal of creating 10,000 new jobs in the Caribbean as outlined in the 2011–15 Caribbean Operational Plan; and whether 50 per cent of the jobs created so far have been for women.

Baroness Northover: It is taking longer than anticipated to create these new jobs. Our implementing partners experienced delays in getting the job-creation projects started and the negative regional economic conditions also makes progress more difficult.
	It is still expected that the 10,000 jobs will be created but they are now expected to be delivered by 2016. It is also expected that the 50% target for women will be met.

Caste Discrimination

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the comments by Baroness Stowell of Beeston on 22 April (HL Deb, col 1319), whether they expect to launch their consultation on caste discrimination before the parliamentary summer recess.

Baroness Stowell of Beeston: The Government is considering what work is required to implement the new provisions on caste discrimination in the Equality Act 2010. As was widely recognised in recent Parliamentary debates on the issue, public consultation needs to be thorough and wide-ranging, as part of a process which will take time to complete properly. We expect to be in a position to outline the timetable before the Summer Recess.

Caste Discrimination

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the comments by Baroness Stowell of Beeston on 22 April (HL Deb, col 1319), whether the forthcoming business plan for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will include details of the timetable for their consultation on caste discrimination.

Baroness Stowell of Beeston: As made clear in answer to question HL431 from my noble friend, the timetable for the consultation process on caste legislation has not yet been finalised, and is therefore not appropriate for inclusion in the forthcoming business plan for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

Caste Discrimination

Lord Lester of Herne Hill: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their intention as regards the timing of the public consultation on making caste discrimination unlawful.

Baroness Stowell of Beeston: The Government is considering what work is required to implement the new provisions on caste discrimination in the Equality Act 2010. As was widely recognised in recent Parliamentary debates on the issue, public consultation needs to be thorough and wide-ranging, as part of a process which will take time to complete properly. We expect to be in a position to outline the timetable before the Summer Recess.

Climate Change

Lord Donoughue: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have carried out any risk analysis to assess any actual or potential losses to the United Kingdom attributable to any failures in the accuracy of climate forecasts.

Lord De Mauley: In 2012, the Government published an assessment of the key risks for the UK arising from current and predicted climate change up to the year 2100 (the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment or CCRA). The CCRA makes use of the UK Climate Projections 2009 (UKCP09) that represent a range of possible future changes in UK climate. The range of possibilities takes into account uncertainties in natural climate variability, how the UK's climate may respond to global warming, the future trajectory of emissions, and how these might magnify any regional climate change effects.
	The risks were assessed for a range of plausible climate scenarios — presented as a range from a lower to an upper estimate of magnitude — to take account of uncertainty in future climate scenarios. The CCRA did not consider actual or potential losses to the UK as a result of the accuracy of climate forecasts, but it did take account of uncertainty in climate projections.

Drugs: Prescribed Drug Addiction

Baroness Corston: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what protocols are in place for the detoxification of women in prison who are addicted to benzodiazepine.

Earl Howe: Detailed guidance on benzodiazepine detoxification for prisoners is included in Clinical Management of Drug Dependence in the Adult Prison Setting, published by the Department. Clinicians treating addiction to medicines in prison are expected to follow this and other relevant guidance. A copy of this publication can be found in the Library.

Drugs: Prescribed Drug Addiction

Baroness Corston: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what evidence they have of the incidence of suicide linked to benzodiazepine addiction.

Earl Howe: Withdrawal from benzodiazepines can be unpleasant for people addicted to them. However we do not have evidence of the incidence of suicide linked to benzodiazepine addiction.

Embryology

Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Earl Howe on 24 September 2012 (WA 242), how many human embryos were created in each year since the commencement of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990; what is the latest cumulative number; and how many of those have resulted in live births.

Earl Howe: The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has advised that details of the number of embryos created for the years 1991 to 2006 can be found at the Authority's website at:
	www.hfea.gov.uk/fertility-treatment-trends.html.
	The number of embryos created in 2007 was 215,366 and the number of embryos created between 2008 and 2010 is set out in my earlier answer to my noble Lord on 24 September 2012.
	Figures for the number of embryos created during 2011 and the first half of 2012 are set out in the following table:
	
		
			 Year Embryos created 
			 2011 266,227 
			 Jan-June 2012 132,753 
		
	
	The HFEA has advised that the latest cumulative figure of embryos created since the commencement of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 is 3,806,699. This figure is based on the information in my Written Answer on 24 September 2012 and the information provided in this response.
	The HFEA has advised that the number of live births following In vitro fertilisation treatment in each year to 2010 is publicly available in tab 25 of the dataset published alongside the HFEA report Latest UK fertility treatment data and figures: 2010-11. The dataset can be found on the HFEA website at:
	www.hfea.gov.uk.
	Since the dataset's publication, a further six months' worth of data has been verified, in line with the HFEA verification schedule, and figures for the first half of 2011 are provided in the following table:
	
		
			 Year Number of Babies Born 
			 Jan - Jun 2011 8,774

Food: Sugar

Baroness Byford: To ask Her Majesty’s Government which European Union countries have grown sugar beet over the past five years; what was the average yield for each of those countries; and how many farmers were involved in each country.

Lord De Mauley: Sugar beet production has been recorded for most member states, with production concentrated in the northern half of Europe. The most significant producers of sugar beet are: France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom and Netherlands (see table below for details)
	
		
			 Sugar Beet Production (thousand tonnes) 
			  2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 (provisional) 
			 France 30,306 34,913 31,838 37,259 33,739 
			 Germany 23,003 25,919 23,432 29,578 27,891 
			 Poland 8,715 10,849 9,973 11,674 N/A 
			 UK 7,641 8,457 6,527 8,504 7,291 
			 Netherlands 5,219 5,735 5,280 5,858 5,735 
		
	
	
		
			 Sugar Beet Yield (tonnes per hectare) 
			  2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 (provisional) 
			 France 86.8 93.7 83.1 94.7 86.6 
			 Germany 62.3 67.6 64.4 74.3 69.4 
			 Poland 46.5 54.3 48.3 57.4 N/A 
			 UK 63.9 74.0 55.1 75.4 61.0 
			 Netherlands 72.3 78.9 74.8 79.9 78.9 
		
	
	Source: Eurostat
	Agriculture in the United Kingdom 2012
	The number of holdings growing sugar beet is shown below. Detailed information is only collected every 2-3 years when full Structure Surveys are conducted. The latest available data is 2010. The number of holdings for the UK excludes all the very small non commercial holdings.
	
		
			 EU member state Number of holdings in 2010 
			 Poland 50,290 
			 France 30,690 
			 Germany 24,260 
			 Netherlands 8,790 
			 UK 5,060 
		
	
	Source: EU Farm Structure Surveys
	Other countries i.e. Romania, Italy, Belgium, Spain and Austria have a relatively significant number of sugar beet holdings/farms in the range of 8-9 thousand but production is lower at <5,000 tonnes.
	The full data for all countries are available from the Eurostat website at: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/agriculture/data/main_tables

Government Departments: Expenditure

Lord Barnett: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much of the capital expenditure allocated by the Treasury has actually been spent in each year since 2010.

Lord Deighton: HM Treasury allocates spending limits to departments in the Main Supply Estimates at the start of each financial year. These original spending limits are then updated in the Supplementary Estimates. Outturn figures are published in the quarterly Public Spending Statistics. The table below sets out original
	and final plans for each year since 2009-10 as voted by Parliament and the latest outturn figures published in April 2013.
	
		
			 Capital Departmental Expenditure limits 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 
			 Original Provision 57,205,867 50,179,895 43,374,210 
			 Final Provision 58,269,148 51,500,387 43,819,383 
			 Outturn 56,846,317 50,015,646 42,200,000 
		
	
	Outturn for 2012-13 will be published in the Public Spending National Statistics release on 9 July.

Government Departments: Ministerial Code

Lord Grocott: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 13 June, what is their definition of the phrase “cabinet collective responsibility”.

Lord Wallace of Saltaire: The principle of collective responsibility is set out in Section 2 of the Ministerial Code.

Government Departments: Staff

Lord Inglewood: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many staff at executive level or equivalent and above were employed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the first day of each month since 1 June 2010.

Baroness Northover: The number of staff at executive level, or equivalent and above, employed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the first day of each month, since 1 June 2010, is shown in the table.
	
		
			  Senior Civil Service Pay Band 1 Senior Civil Service Pay Band 2 Senior Civil Service Pay Band 3 Perm Sec 
			 Jun '10 33.00 11.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Jul ' 10 33.00 11.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Aug '10 33.00 11.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Sept ' 10 33.00 11.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Oct ' 10 33.00 10.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Nov '10 33.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Dec '10 33.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Jan '11 31.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Feb ' 11 31.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Mar '11 31.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Apr '11 26.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 May '11 26.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Jun '11 26.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Jul '11 26.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Aug'11 33.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Sept ' 11 33.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
		
	
	
		
			 Oct ' 11 33.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Nov '11 33.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Dec ' 11 33.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Jan '12 33.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Feb ' 12 33.00 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Mar ' 12 35.90 9.00 2.00 1.00 
			 Apr ' 12 35.90 1.00 2.00 1.00 
			 May '12 35.90 10.00 1.00 1.00 
			 Jun '12 35.90 10.00 1.00 1.00 
			 Jul '12 31.90 10.00 1.00 1.00 
			 Aug '12 35.90 10.00 1.00 1.00 
			 Sept'12 35.90 10.00 1.00 1.00 
			 Oct ' 12 3.190 10.00 1.00 1.00 
			 Nov '12 26.90 9.00 0.00 1.00 
			 Dec '12 24.00 7.00 0.00 1.00 
			 Jan '13 22.00 7.00 0.00 1.00 
			 Feb '13 22.00 8.00 0.00 1.00 
			 Mar ' 13 22.00 8.00 0.00 1.00

Health: Bowel Disease

Baroness Masham of Ilton: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence plans to update its guidance relating to bowel management to take account of the currently available evidence.
	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to review the patient pathway relating to bowel management.

Earl Howe: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has not published guidance specifically on bowel management.
	NICE has published a number of related clinical guidelines including on the management of faecal incontinence in adults (CG49), irritable bowel syndrome (CG61), Crohn's disease (CG152) and colorectal cancer (CG131).
	NICE regularly reviews its clinical guidelines to ensure they take account of the available evidence base.
	NICE Pathways are online resources that represent all of NICE's current guidance on a particular topic. NICE Pathways are updated when the associated NICE guidance or quality standards are updated.

Health: Cancer Drugs Fund

Lord Clement-Jones: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what information they have received from NHS England about the operation of the national Cancer Drugs Fund list since April 2013.

Earl Howe: Information on the use of the Cancer Drugs Fund since NHS England took responsibility for the Fund from April 2013 is not yet available.
	We understand that NHS England is currently considering which information will be made available routinely and how it will be made available. It is validating the data for April and May and this information is expected to be made available in early July. Thereafter, each month's data will be published at the end of the following month.

Health: Cancer Drugs Fund

Lord Clement-Jones: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they are planning to take to avoid variations in access to medicines between patients diagnosed just before or just after the end of the current Cancer Drugs Fund arrangements.
	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the potential impact on the speed of access to cancer medicines of termination of the current Cancer Drugs Fund arrangements.

Earl Howe: NHS England has developed a single national list of cancer drugs that will be routinely funded through the Fund. This should lead to improved consistency in access and improved speed of access to most cancer medicines not routinely funded by the National Health Service.
	We are committed to ensuring that arrangements are in place to protect individual patients receiving treatment through the Cancer Drugs Fund as the planned end of the Fund approaches.
	In the context of developing new pricing arrangements for branded medicines, we also are exploring ways in which patients can continue to benefit from innovative cancer drugs at a cost that represents value to the NHS.

Health: Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Lord Pearson of Rannoch: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on the turnover and profit of pharmaceutical companies of the establishment of a statutory register for practitioners supplying unlicensed herbal medicines.

Earl Howe: In considering the establishment of a statutory register of herbal practitioners, no assessment has been made of the impact on the turnover and profit of companies not involved in the supply of herbal medicines.

Health: Controlled Trials

Lord Saatchi: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the future viability of randomised controlled trials.

Earl Howe: The Department has made no specific assessment of this issue.

Health: Drugs Pricing

Lord Clement-Jones: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have for a public consultation on the development of value-based pricing of drugs.
	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have for a public consultation about the future of the Cancer Drugs Fund.

Earl Howe: We consulted on our proposals for, A new value-based approach to the pricing of branded medicines from December 2010 to March 2011. As part of this process, a number of patient organisations contributed their views and these were reflected in the Government's response to the consultation, published in July 2011.
	In March 2013, we confirmed that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) will be responsible for the full value assessment of new medicines as part of value-based pricing. NICE will continue to produce guidance for patients and the National Health Service which describes the clinical and cost effectiveness of the technology and its position in clinical practice, and this will be based on the best available evidence and will be as transparent as possible. On 20 June, the Government gave NICE terms of reference for this work and NICE will now take this forward to develop the value assessment methodology. As part of this process, there will be engagement opportunities for the full range of stakeholders to feed in their views.
	We are exploring ways in which patients can continue to benefit from innovative cancer drugs at a cost that represents value to the NHS, in the context of developing the new pricing arrangements for branded medicines.

Health: Drugs Pricing

Lord Clement-Jones: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will need to update the Mandate to NHS England to include the operation of value-based pricing of drugs.
	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to update the Mandate to NHS England to reflect the operation of the national Cancer Drugs Fund list.

Earl Howe: The Department intends to launch a public consultation on proposals for a refresh to the Mandate to NHS England later this year.
	The current Mandate already includes an objective for NHS England to make significant progress in ensuring people have access to the right treatment when they need it, including drugs and treatments recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Health: Human Papilloma Virus

The Countess of Mar: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether it is a legal requirement that in all cases where a child is given human papilloma virus vaccine at school, the child's general practitioner is informed of the date, the time of the vaccination and the make and batch number of the vaccine; and, if not, where those details are recorded.

Earl Howe: The Secretary of State delegates responsibility to NHS England for commissioning immunisation programmes, including the human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme. This delegation is made under section 7A of the National Health Service Act 2006 as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The detailed description of the HPV immunisation services to be commissioned is set out in, Service specification No.11: Human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme (November 2012). A copy has been placed in the Library.
	The service specification emphasises that the accurate recording of all vaccinations given and good management of all associated documentation is essential. It also states that, if the vaccination is given outside a general practitioner (GP) practice, the provider should ensure that information on vaccines administered is notified to the girl's GP. The girl's GP records should be updated after vaccination, including those given at school, with key information including the name of the vaccine, the batch number and the date of vaccination.

Health: Human Papilloma Virus

The Countess of Mar: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the patient information leaflet provided by the manufacturers of human papilloma virus vaccines is provided to parents prior to their being asked to provide consent to their child being vaccinated.

Earl Howe: The vaccine manufacturer's patient information leaflet (PIL) is not routinely given to girls, and their parents/carers should be given an information leaflet about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination prior to being asked to give consent. This contains summary information about possible side effects. The leaflet advises girls and their parents/carers to read the PIL if more detailed information is needed about side effects.

Health: Human Papilloma Virus

The Countess of Mar: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the information pamphlet provided by schools to parents with consent forms for vaccination of human papilloma virus vaccine contains all the information on side effects provided by the manufacturers of the vaccines.

Earl Howe: The information leaflet contains summary information about possible side effects. The leaflet advises girls and their parents/carers to read the manufacturer's patient information leaflet if more detailed information is needed about side effects. The leaflet also encourages readers to contact the school nurse or other health professional if they have any concerns or need further information about any aspect of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination.

Higher Education: Student Loans

Lord Myners: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to increase the minimum income level student graduates have to earn before they are required to repay student loans by the same percentage each year as average earnings.

Baroness Garden of Frognal: In December 2010, the Government announced that under the new student finance arrangements, the income contingent loan repayment threshold, for new students commencing courses in September 2012 or later, will be £21,000 from April 2016; and that it intended to increase the threshold annually in line with earnings growth.
	The Government also announced at the same time its intention to increase the existing repayment threshold, then £15,000, in line with inflation (RPI) in April 2012, (increased to £15,794), April 2013 (increased to £16,365), April 2014 and April 2015.

Homeless Families

Baroness King of Bow: To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the press release on 7 June by the Department for Communities and Local Government on families living in bed and breakfast accommodation, how they calculated the figure of £1.8 million as sufficient to reduce the number of homeless families in bed and breakfast accommodation for more than six weeks in the 15 worst affected local authorities by 75 per cent by December 2013.
	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions officials at the Department for Communities and Local Government had with the 15 local authorities invited to bid for a share of £1.8 million to reduce the number of homeless families in bed and breakfast accommodation for more than six weeks by 75 per cent by December 2013 about (a) the baseline date, and (b) the use of a sliding scale target.

Baroness Hanham: It is unacceptable and unlawful to put families in bed and breakfast accommodation other than in an emergency and then for no more than six weeks.
	Most local authorities ensure families at risk of homelessness are not placed in this unsuitable accommodation, but a minority need to do more to avoid this damaging practice. The fifteen authorities invited to bid for the funding are the only areas that reported having more than ten families in bed and breakfast for more than six weeks at the end of March 2013. Together they account for almost 80% of the total number of families with children in bed and breakfast accommodation for longer than six weeks.
	Officials have had discussions with a number of those local authorities with highest numbers of families in bed and breakfast to understand their plans to tackle the problem. While progress has been made in some areas, other authorities need to do more to meet their legal duty.
	That is why the Housing Minister announced nearly £2 million to challenge those authorities facing the greatest pressure to raise their game. The funding is intended to facilitate fresh thinking and innovative approaches. Government does not intend to prescribe the approach and no sliding scale target has been proposed.

Homelessness: Rough Sleepers

Lord Roberts of Llandudno: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that rough sleepers receive health care should they require it.

Earl Howe: We are taking steps to address the poor health outcomes experienced by the homeless and in particular those who sleep rough, and the difficulties that they, and other vulnerable groups, face in accessing some health services. For the first time, we have introduced legal duties on National Health Service commissioners to reduce inequalities in access to and outcomes from health services.
	In addition, we have established the Inclusion Health programme, through which we are working with other Government departments, the NHS and the third sector to tackle the poor health of people in vulnerable circumstances and to ensure everyone gets the care they need, regardless of their needs or circumstances.
	As part of this broad programme, we are working with NHS England to look at how to improve access for transient people to primary care services.
	To improve hospital discharge arrangements for the homeless, the Government announced on 13 May 2013 a new Homeless Hospital Discharge Fund. This will provide Government investment of £10 million to improve hospital discharge procedures for the homeless, with the aim of ensuring that no homeless person is discharged from hospital until their housing and further
	health needs have been addressed. At the same time as the announcement, an application process was launched for voluntary sector organisations, working in partnership with the NHS and local government, to bid for funding.

Housing: Letting Agencies

Lord Greaves: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the Shelter report Letting agencies: the price you pay.

Baroness Hanham: We welcome Shelter's contribution to the debate. But remain unconvinced that increased regulation is the answer. So we do not support a blanket ban on fees to tenants especially as this is likely to drive up the cost of rents. However, it is agreed that we need to take action to drive up standards in the private rented sector. We are already changing the law to require all letting and managing agents to belong to an approved redress scheme which will give tenants an effective way to address complaints.
	Whilst landlords and letting agents are free to set their own charges, they are prohibited from setting unfair terms or fees under existing consumer protection legislation. Where a consumer believes that agents are in breach of this legislation, it is open to them to draw this to the attention of their local trading standards officer.

Kenya

Lord Laird: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many United Kingdom nationals have been deported from Kenya to the United Kingdom since the general election in that country; who paid for the return travel; and, of those deported, over how many the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has expressed concerns regarding their treatment in custody and what were the responses from the government of Kenya.

Baroness Warsi: We are aware of one detained British national who completed their sentence after the Kenyan elections and was not permitted to remain in Kenya. Due to our obligations under the Data Protection Act, we are unable to provide further detail. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office takes all allegations of mistreatment and torture extremely seriously and, with an individual's permission, will always ask for a full, impartial and independent investigation into the incidents concerned to be carried out. We would normally expect the host government to fund any deportation, however in cases where the host government is not willing or able to allocate funds swiftly, the individual may decide to fund their deportation themselves.

Legal Aid

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they intend to minimise the bureaucracy that Law Centres face when having their cases audited by the Legal Aid Agency.

Lord McNally: To ensure appropriate expenditure of public money under the legal aid fund. the Legal Aid Agency is obliged to undertake audits of all legal aid providers, including Law Centres. These help ensure that providers have adequate systems in place to reduce unnecessary provider processing and billing errors; false claims and reduce unnecessary debt amounts. When errors in claiming are identified, additional audits take place until the extent of inappropriate claiming is determined and money returned to the public purse. Periodically the Legal Aid Agency reviews its auditing processes to ensure that they are of benefit to the agency and providers as well as the public purse.

Legal Aid

Lord Avebury: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many responses were received to the consultation by the Ministry of Justice Transforming Legal Aid; and, of those, how many were favourable to their proposals.

Lord McNally: Between 9 April and 4 June 2013 the Government consulted on a number of proposals to reform legal aid via the Transforming Legal Aid: delivering a more credible and efficient system consultation. We have been clear we must continue to bear down on the cost of legal aid, including the £1 billion of taxpayers' money spent on criminal legal aid a year, to ensure we are getting the best deal for the taxpayer.
	We received approximately 16,000 responses to the consultation. Figures will be approximate until the logging process has been completed.
	At this stage we are not in a position to say how many were favourable to our proposals as the analysing of the responses only recently commenced. A full answer to this question will, of course, be contained in the Government response, which is due to be published in the autumn.

Migrant Workers: Romanian Nationals

Lord Roberts of Llandudno: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of registered healthcare professionals currently working in the United Kingdom are Romanian nationals.

Earl Howe: Data on the nationality of registered healthcare professionals currently working in the United Kingdom is not collected by the Department.

NHS Trust Development Authority

Lord Warner: To ask Her Majesty’s Government for which NHS trusts the NHS Development Authority has oversight; what is each of those trusts' estimated or actual expenditure for 2012–13, and whether that represents a surplus or deficit against each trust's budget for that year; what is each trust's historic debt; and what is the estimated or target date for each trust to apply to Monitor for foundation trust status, either in their own right or in combination with another NHS trust or NHS foundation trust.

Earl Howe: The NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA) has oversight of the trusts listed in Table 1.
	The projected 2012-13 expenditure for these trusts, expressed as Quarter 3 forecast operating surplus or deficit, is outlined in Table 1. The final figures for actual expenditure will be confirmed by September 2013, once the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts have been laid before Parliament.
	The NHS TDA has a responsibility to agree sustainable outcomes for each National Health Service trust. The progress of each NHS trust in terms of moving to Foundation Trust status or to a suitable alternative form is outlined in the 23 May NHS TDA Board paper, Securing Sustainable Services which is available at:
	www.ntda.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Securing-Sustainable-Services-23.05.13-Paper-G2.pdf
	As noted in this NHS TDA Board paper, the sustainability outcome for a number of trusts is yet to be concluded as the planning process for this year is not complete.
	As regards historic debt, NHS trusts have a statutory duty to ensure that revenue is not less than sufficient, taking one year with another, to meet outgoings properly chargeable to the revenue account. This is known as the “break-even duty”.
	Cumulative break-even positions, as at 31 March 2012, are shown in Table 2. Equivalent figures for 2012-13 will be available by September 2013, once the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts have been laid before Parliament.
	
		
			 Table 1 
			 Trust Name Operating Surplus/(Deficit) 000s Total Operating Expenses £000 
			 Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust 2,926 182,413 
			 Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (39,577) 447,207 
			 Barnet And Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust 0 339,143 
			 Barnet, Enfield And Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust 1,930 182,537 
			 Barts Health NHS Trust 0 1,273,690 
			 Bedford Hospital NHS Trust 0 211,496 
		
	
	
		
			 Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust 2,948 242,250 
			 Bradford District Care NHS Trust 1,450 131,516 
			 Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Trust 1,712 170,816 
			 Brighton And Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust 2,878 593,300 
			 Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 2,000 328,676 
			 Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust 1,427 152,447 
			 Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust 1,814 188,024 
			 Coventry And Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust 6,694 192,357 
			 Croydon Health Services NHS Trust 128 233,101 
			 Dartford And Gravesham NHS Trust 0 162,116 
			 Devon Partnership NHS Trust 3,020 136,168 
			 Dudley And Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust 1,801 66,666 
			 Ealing Hospital NHS Trust 0 222,553 
			 East And North Hertfordshire NHS Trust 500 126,847 
			 East Cheshire NHS Trust 1,700 176,957 
			 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust 8,006 386,043 
			 East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust 1,544 151,689 
			 East Of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust 4,107 225,166 
			 East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust 2,800 372,635 
			 Epsom And St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust (13,522) 123,549 
			 George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust 0 119,197 
			 Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust 851 88,422 
			 Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust 1,229 124,155 
			 Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust 0 105,900 
			 Hull And East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust 5,911 483,418 
			 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 9,745 928,529 
			 Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust 0 224,797 
			 Isle Of Wight NHS Trust 500 162,113 
			 Kent And Medway NHS And Social Care Partnership NHS Trust 1,097 167,642 
			 Kent Community NHS Trust 2,114 210,460 
			 Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 6,513 968,541 
			 Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust 4,200 269,644 
			 Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust 3,203 141,862 
			 London Ambulance Service NHS Trust 262 291,549 
			 Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust 0 350,049 
			 Manchester Mental Health And Social Care NHS Trust 1,100 107,529 
			 Mersey Care NHS Trust 4,000 202,912 
			 Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust 415 267,094 
		
	
	
		
			 Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (24,699) 465,609 
			 Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust 2,591 121,265 
			 North Bristol NHS Trust 7,000 205,328 
			 North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust 1,000 235,897 
			 North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust 1,917 176,497 
			 North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust 1,282 74,825 
			 North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust 2,500 256,255 
			 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust (20,600) 415,343 
			 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust 0 261,567 
			 Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust 2,145 213,873 
			 Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust 4,702 786,366 
			 Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 8,300 407,708 
			 Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust 3,602 770,233 
			 Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 25 569,076 
			 Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust 1,000 398,540 
			 Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust 4,268 430,864 
			 Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust 0 178,867 
			 Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust 9,800 303,127 
			 Royal Liverpool Broadgreen Hospitals NHS Trust 7,324 414,237 
			 Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust 9,240 216,484 
			 Royal Wolverhampton Hospital NHS Trust 8,440 362,169 
			 Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust 6,330 420,318 
			 Scarborough And North East Yorkshire NHS Trust 11 30,974 
			 Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS Trust 1,000 297,820 
			 Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust 1,479 77,530 
			 South London Healthcare NHS Trust (44,886) 453,545 
			 South West London And St George's Mental Health NHS Trust 1,625 157,672 
			 Southport And Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust 1,250 178,699 
			 St George's Healthcare NHS Trust 6,245 619,945 
			 St Helens And Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust 700 259,741 
			 Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust 2,004 365,183 
			 Surrey And Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust 250 222,763 
			 Sussex Community NHS Trust 1,889 181,126 
			 The Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust 2,538 183,347 
			 The Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust 698 56,016 
			 The Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust 1,306 134,323 
		
	
	
		
			 The Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust 1,759 236,494 
			 The Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust 1,512 101,248 
			 The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust 2,322 112,633 
			 The Solent NHS Trust 753 184,297 
			 The Wirral Community NHS Trust 900 63,007 
			 Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust 100 137,516 
			 United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust 98 407,091 
			 University Hospital Of North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust (3,973) 473,040 
			 University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS Trust 2,110 495,161 
			 University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust 46 727,221 
			 Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust 3,706 209,774 
			 West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust 1,898 270,377 
			 West London Mental Health NHS Trust 3,438 211,533 
			 West Middlesex University NHS Trust 1,602 142,064 
			 Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust 5,224 352,299 
			 Weston Area Health NHS Trust 2,250 94,660 
			 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust 3,562 270,112 
			 Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 0 332,585 
			 Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust 2,500 165,411 
			 Wye Valley NHS Trust 200 169,612 
			 Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 1,975 200,360 
		
	
	
		
			 Table 2 
			 Table 2: 2011-12 Cumulative Break-even Position of NHS Trusts (for which the NHS Development Authority now has oversight) 
			 Trust Name 2011-12 Break-even Cumulative Position £000 
			 Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust 7,959 
			 Barking Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust -199,848 
			 Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Trust -8,299 
			 Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust 8,549 
			 Barts Health NHS Trust 16,761 
			 Bedford Hospital NHS Trust 8,948 
			 Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust 3,245 
			 Bradford District Care NHS Trust 3,792 
			 Bridgewater Community Healthcare Trust 2,192 
			 Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust -3,053 
			 Buckinghamshire Community Healthcare NHS Trust 65 
			 Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust 1,194 
			 Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust 6,031 
		
	
	
		
			 Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust 13,558 
			 Croydon Health Services NHS Trust 11,389 
			 Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust 3,459 
			 Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust 1,419 
			 Devon Partnership NHS Trust 4,793 
			 Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust 2,624 
			 Ealing Hospital NHS Trust 6,798 
			 East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust 11,221 
			 East Cheshire NHS Trust 623 
			 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust 4,415 
			 East Midlands Ambulance Services NHS Trust 6,992 
			 East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust 7,987 
			 East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust -2,522 
			 Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust -7,064 
			 George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust -2,406 
			 Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust 1,371 
			 Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust 1,214 
			 Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust -38,011 
			 Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust 1,667 
			 Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust 20,360 
			 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 30,604 
			 Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust -3,608 
			 Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust n/a 
			 Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership NHS Trust 4,451 
			 Kent Community Health NHS Trust 2,899 
			 Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust 2,577 
			 Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 11,089 
			 Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust 11,074 
			 Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust -99 
			 Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust 1,081 
			 Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust 6,184 
			 London Ambulance Service NHS Trust 7,747 
			 Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells -1,061 
			 Manchester Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust 2,592 
			 Mersey Care NHS Trust 18,744 
			 Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust 4,180 
			 Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust -43,473 
			 NHS Direct 9,196 
			 Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust 1,189 
			 North Bristol NHS Trust -8,506 
			 North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust -2,436 
			 North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust 4,919 
			 North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust 3,338 
		
	
	
		
			 North West Ambulance Services NHS Trust 8,342 
			 North West London Hospitals NHS Trust -36,890 
			 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust 6,586 
			 Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust 2,222 
			 Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust 43,318 
			 Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 30,284 
			 Oxford University NHS Trust -11,177 
			 Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 6,669 
			 Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust 12,089 
			 Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust -5,091 
			 Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust 2,923 
			 Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust -22,438 
			 Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen Hospitals NHS Trust 18,946 
			 Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust -6,464 
			 Royal Wolverhampton Hospital NHS Trust 17,858 
			 Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust 15,985 
			 Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust -22,094 
			 Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust 1,397 
			 Solent NHS Trust 1,863 
			 South London Healthcare NHS Trust -147,995 
			 South West London and St George’s NHS Trust 15,080 
			 Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust 2,369 
			 St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust -4,887 
			 St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust 3,633 
			 Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust 1,527 
			 Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust -44,524 
			 Sussex Community Health NHS Trust 7,266 
			 The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust -1,737 
			 The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust 5,738 
			 Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care Trust n/a 
			 United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust -8,207 
			 University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust 2,878 
			 University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust 18,419 
			 University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 5,062 
			 Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust 15,342 
			 West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust 12,373 
			 West London Mental Health NHS Trust 16,358 
			 West Middlesex University NHS Trust -19,791 
			 Weston Area Health NHS Trust -5,161 
			 Wirral Community Health Services 717 
			 Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust -18,344 
		
	
	
		
			 Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust 1,500 
			 Wye Valley NHS Trust (Hereford Hospital) 763 
			 Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 4,684 
		
	
	Source:
	2011-12 NHS Trust Audited Summarisation Schedules
	Note:
	The figure for Barts Health NHS Trust is the combined figure for Barts and the London NHS Trust, Newham University Hospital NHS Trust and Whipps Cross University NHS Trust. Those three trusts merged on 1 April 2012 to form Barts Heath NHS Trust.

NHS: Health Care Providers

Lord Patel of Bradford: To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will announce their response to the conclusions and recommendations in Monitor's independent review for the Secretary of State for Health, A fair playing field for the benefit of NHS patients.

Earl Howe: The Government is committed to ensuring that providers from all sectors can contribute to the delivery of high quality services for National Health Service patients. Too often there are barriers and obstacles that prevent the provider best able to meet the needs of patients from doing so.
	In response to the Fair Playing Field Review, we have asked Monitor to establish a high-level group to provide oversight of, and review progress against, the recommendations. Monitor expects the first meeting to take place during July.

NHS: Innovation

Lord Saatchi: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress Sir David Nicholson has made in encouraging a culture change towards innovation within the National Health Service.

Earl Howe: In December 2011, the National Health Service Chief Executive Sir David Nicholson published a report entitled, Innovation health and wealth, accelerating adoption and diffusion in the NHS. This articulated the importance of innovation in NHS England's ambition to ramp up the pace and scale of change, and deliver better outcomes for patients across all five domains of the NHS Outcomes Framework. Since publication, NHS England has progressed a number of key programmes including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence implementation collaborative, Academic Health Science Networks and
	the Innovation scorecard. These and other initiatives are helping to embed a coordinated approach and greater awareness of the importance of innovative thinking and practice throughout the health care system.
	In addition, a new dedicated Innovation Team has been established within NHS England's Medical Directorate. The team works across the NHS, social care, academia and industry on a range of initiatives which facilitate the generation, identification, adoption and diffusion of innovative ideas, products and technologies.

NHS: Waiting Times and Cancellations

Lord Campbell-Savours: To ask Her Majesty’s Government to what extent the downgrading of the emergency medical centre at Wycombe Hospital in Buckinghamshire to a minor injuries unit has affected performance against the four-hour waiting time target at Wexham Park Hospital; and whether they will publish figures on the effect of that downgrading on performance against those targets at Wexham Park.
	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the reason for the recent increase in the number of cancelled operations at the Wexham Park Hospital in Buckinghamshire.
	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what actions have been, and are to be, taken to reduce the number of cancelled operations and to improve performance against the accident and emergency four-hour waiting time target at the Wexham Park Hospital in Buckinghamshire.

Earl Howe: This information is not collected centrally. However, The Department has been advised by Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals Foundation Trust that it is seeing an overall increase in demand from all the main areas that the Trust serves, with a high level of seriously ill patients needing admission to hospital. The increased number of admissions and length of stay of these patients has resulted in the need to cancel a number of elective operations due to lack of bed availability.
	In response to the demand on capacity and to target the number of delays, the Trust advises it has put in place two new wards with a total of 28 beds and is further reviewing capacity to assess if there is a need for further increases in bed numbers. The Trust is also implementing a local action plan as part of the whole health and social care systems response to ensuring sustainable improvement in accident and emergency (A&E) performance, in line with guidance from NHS England.
	We understand that the Trust has also increased its capacity at Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, to increase the number of operations it is able to perform on that site as well as using the hospital as a step down facility where appropriate. The Trust is working to increase
	supported discharge, to ensure that patients who are able to go home or to a community setting, with support, are able to do so.
	A whole system, multiagency A&E recovery and improvement plan has been developed and agreed by a local Urgent Care Programme Group Chaired by the Clinical Chair of Slough Clinical Commissioning Group, to support improved performance against the four-hour waiting time standard.
	The Trust is a member of the local Urgent Care Board. The Board has taken a number of actions to support the Trust including providing an additional £150,000 ‘spot purchase’ resources to speed up discharges of patients who are medically fit. £4.8 million has also been invested through the transfer of funding to Social Care in 2013-14 to support the urgent and emergency care system. An additional £3.047 million will also be invested in community services.
	Hospital level information on accident and emergency waiting times is not held centrally and is not available in the format requested. Information collected by NHS England is available as follows
	
		
			 Percentage of patients who spent less than 4 hours in A&E at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Trust since October 2012 
			 Year Week Type 1 Departments - Major A&E All Types 
			 2012-13 W/E 07/10/2012 93.41% 94.67% 
			  W/E 14/10/2012 95.46% 96.33% 
			  W/E 21/10/2012 92.73% 94.06% 
			  W/E 28/10/2012 94.65% 95.56% 
			  W/E 04/11/2012 92.00% 93.31% 
			  W/E 11/11/2012 93.80% 94.86% 
			  W/E 18/11/2012 79.99% 83.49% 
			  W/E 25/11/2012 96.64% 97.24% 
			  W/E 02/12/2012 86.63% 89.07% 
			  W/E 09/12/2012 88.85% 90.79% 
			  W/E 16/12/2012 93.05% 94.29% 
			  W/E 23/12/2012 91.17% 92.45% 
			  W/E 30/12/2012 85.78% 87.48% 
			  W/E 06/01/2013 86.69% 88.56% 
			  W/E 13/01/2013 83.60% 86.23% 
			  W/E 20/01/2013 90.05% 91.37% 
			  W/E 27/01/2013 82.36% 85.25% 
			  W/E 03/02/2013 83.08% 85.78% 
			  W/E 10/02/2013 84.64% 87.24% 
			  W/E 17/02/2013 81.00% 84.11% 
			  W/E 24/02/2013 83.28% 85.81% 
			  W/E 03/03/2013 84.89% 87.36% 
			  W/E 10/03/2013 81.15% 84.29% 
			  W/E 17/03/2013 79.86% 82.96% 
			  W/E 24/03/2013 76.95% 80.61% 
			  W/E 31/03/2013 74.31% 78.09% 
			 2013-14 W/E 07/04/2013 74.24% 77.97% 
			  W/E 14/04/2013 71.81% 76.03% 
			  W/E 21/04/2013 83.95% 86.83% 
			  W/E 28/04/2013 85.29% 88.20% 
			  W/E 05/05/2013 87.19% 89.56% 
			  W/E 12/05/2013 86.44% 88.88% 
			  W/E 19/05/2013 84.89% 87.44% 
		
	
	
		
			  W/E 26/05/2013 92.51% 93.73% 
			  W/E 02/06/2013 94.11% 95.11% 
			  W/E 09/06/2013 88.98% 91.11%

Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012: Housing

Lord Fearn: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many houses and flats have been built on sites used in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; and what plans there are to construct residential property on those sites.

Baroness Hanham: Parliament devolved responsibility for the Olympic legacy to the Mayor of London in passing the 2011 Localism Act. The Mayor established the London Legacy Development Corporation in April 2012 to manage the long-term planning, development, management and maintenance of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and its facilities after the London 2012 Games.
	The Corporation secured outline planning permission in September 2012, supporting a phased development of the site with up to 11,000 homes being built by 2030. They propose that up to 8,000 of these homes will be developed in five new neighbourhoods, while 2,800 homes will be situated in the athletes' village, with residents expected to start moving in this autumn. Chobham Manor, the neighbourhood located between the east Village and the Velopark, will provide a second phase of 800 homes. Main construction is expected to begin in 2014 with the first homes ready for occupation in 2015.
	Further details about the planned development of the Park are available on the their website at: http://www.londonlegacy.co.uk/the-park/

Overseas Aid

Lord Chidgey: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress they have made in constructing a model that offers a variety of methodological tools and options for adjustments and modifications in determining aid allocations.

Baroness Northover: A range of tools and frameworks provide assurance that the Department's resource allocation maximises impact of UK overseas development assistance. During the Spending Review 2010, these formed the basis for the Multilateral Aid Review and Bilateral Aid Review. The Department keeps these tools and frameworks under review to ensure resources go to where needs are greatest and they have the greatest impact.

Overseas Conflict: Sexual Violence

Lord Lester of Herne Hill: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, during the United Kingdom’s forthcoming Presidency of the United Nations Security Council, they intend to propose a resolution on preventing sexual violence in situations of armed conflict, including on the provision of non-discriminatory health care for women raped in war and the recognition of rape as a prohibited tactic of war.

Baroness Warsi: Under the UK Presidency of the UN Security Council, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), will chair a debate on prevention of sexual violence in conflict on 24 June. As part of the debate, we hope that the Security Council will adopt a resolution to strengthen the mandate of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for sexual violence in conflict. The provision of non-discriminatory healthcare is outside the scope of this resolution. The Government has not proposed language for the resolution which categorises rape as a prohibited tactic of war as we do not believe that this would create stronger safeguards as a matter of law for protected persons.

Prisoners: Mental Health

Lord Patel of Bradford: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the prevalence of (1) psychosis, (2) depression, (3) anxiety disorders, (4) personality disorders, (5) alcohol dependency, and (5) drug dependency, among offenders under probation supervision in England and Wales.
	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the prevalence of (1) psychosis, (2) depression, (3) anxiety disorders, (4) personality disorders, (5) alcohol dependency, and (5) drug dependency, among prisoners in England and Wales.
	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to conduct an update to the survey of Psychiatric Morbidity Among Prisoners in England and Wales, published in 1998.

Earl Howe: No assessment has been made by the Government regarding the prevalence of psychosis, anxiety, depression, personality disorder and alcohol or drug dependency amongst offenders under probation supervision or of prisoners in England. Decisions about assessing the prevalence of these conditions in Wales are matters for the Welsh Government.
	The Government regards the Office of National Statistics (ONS) 1998 survey, Psychiatric Morbidity among Prisoners in England and Wales as the most reliable survey of mental illness and substance misuse amongst prisoners to date. The ONS estimated that about 90% of adult prisoners had at least one of five disorders considered in the survey (personality disorder, psychosis, neurosis, alcohol misuse and drug dependence. There are no current plans to repeat the ONS survey.

Syria

Lord Beecham: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much (1) the Gulf States, and (2) Saudi Arabia, have contributed to relief for Syrian refugees; and what representations they have made to those countries in relation to the United Nations emergency appeal.

Baroness Warsi: Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States pledged over $1billion at the Syria pledging conference in Kuwait in January 2013. We are working closely with these states and actively encouraging them to translate the generous pledges they made at Kuwait into support on the ground. This includes exploring options for joint initiatives of humanitarian support for those affected by the crisis.
	We also used last week's G8 meeting to lobby leaders and the wider international community to respond to the UN's latest appeal in relation to the humanitarian crisis in Syria.

Syria

Lord Patten: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the role of the groups Ahrar al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra and the al-Farouq battalions that are presently fighting within Syria.

Baroness Warsi: Ahrar al-Sham likely formed in late 2011 as an independent anti-regime fighting group and formally announced its existence in February 2012. Its stated goal is the removal of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the establishment of an Islamic state. The Al-Farouq battalion is a Homs based anti-regime fighting group. We have limited information on its goal beyond the removal of Assad. Jabhat Al-Nusrah or Al-Nusrah Front (ANF) is a UN designated terrorist group active in Syria. ANF was designated as an alias of AQ-I and has publicly sworn allegiance to AQ leader AI-Zawahiri. We draw a clear distinction between extremist groups and the moderate opposition, including the Syrian National Coalition and the Supreme Military Council led by General Idris. These groups have rejected and condemned all forms of terrorism and any extremist ideology or mentality.

Waterways and Rivers: Fishing

Lord Fearn: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many rivers and waterways in England have restrictions regarding the right to fish.

Lord De Mauley: An individual may fish on rivers and waterways in England, if first permitted by the relevant owner of the river or waterway. If over the age of twelve, he or she must be in possession of a valid rod licence. An individual must comply with the relevant national and other regulations and any local fisheries bylaws, including those imposed by the owner or tenant of the waterway.